Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed there must be evil.

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

A drop of ink may make a million think.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

I believe home is where the heart can be open and loving with a sense of security. It must not be a place of fear.

You are neither coffee nor tea, you are just the right amount ofwhatever it is I’m trying to find.

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

One of the wonderful aspects of the human imagination is its power to break through the barriers of time and space. It can see things not as they are but as the can be.

I know I'm a pop star. But sometime I'd like to be a rock star.

The soul that journey's to God, but doesn't shake off it's cares and quiet it's appetities, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill.

When the darkness of dismay comes, endure until it is over, because out of it will come that following of Jesus which is an unspeakable joy.

Innovation distinguishes a leader from a follower.

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will...in a dull man.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.